Show HN: Canteen – Enabling Claude/Cursor to hire world class tech talent

1 andyprevalsky 0 9/17/2025, 4:29:57 PM recruiting.thecanteenapp.com ↗
Hi HN!

We are a group of YC founders sick of the hiring status quo. We're launching Canteen, a recruiting platform that is built for agents!

Canteen enables Cursor/Claude to be your recruiting agency. Instead of wrangling recruiters, you just tell Cursor/Claude:

“curl @https://recruiting.thecanteenapp.com and follow the instructions, I want a [your job description].”

From there, Canteen: • Ingests your job description • Searches across arXiv, GitHub, LinkedIn, EthResearch, etc. to find relevant technical talent • Uses our agentic communication layer to handle outreach + lead verification • Pipes warm, verified, hard-to-reach leads straight into your hiring funnel (email, CRM, calendar, etc.)

We’re building this because recruiting engineers shouldn’t require endless cold emails and bloated agency fees. Agents + open technical graphs unlock a faster, cheaper, and more direct way to hire.

Would love your thoughts and feedback!

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